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Short Stories
Some people think it's easy to write a short story. 'You just write less.' Those people, if they write, write stories that suck. Those people write short stories that you read and never think of again. Pure fiction. Putrid blobs of dull dialogue and predictable behavior.
I think short stories are by far the hardest form of writing. Leave something out and they're pointless. Tell too much and they're ugly. I rarely believe myself when The Internal Narrator says a short story is done. I've worked on and off for years to bind some of them and call the group:
Scars & Nonsense
A collection of odd, mostly unpublished and often painful stories that follow the same character from youth to middle age from the first break of his nose to the birth of his second daughter and beyond. Some of the titles below will make the cut. NOTE: Not all the titles have links; the stories I'm willing to share changes.